The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-08-25
Farm and Stock.

The Texas Live Stock Journal saws
that the Texas farmer is thriftIess. This
is not true. Taken as an average and with
his general surroundings, the venture is
{ made that the Texas farmer will COM
pare favorably with his neighbor any
where To be sure if he comes
to the state with little
he has got to work on little until he can
get start, and it is the sherest folly for a
paper that presumably goes to the farmer
to charge thiftlessness. On the contrary,
their missions should be to counsel and ad-
wise. Talk about new machinery, new
methods, and filfals generally, is we'll
enough in its way, but when man has to
pay for his home, his horse ard
his COW he is NOT taking much stock in
new machinery.
The STATESMAN credits the Live Stock
Journal with the following good re-
marks:
At present the only fine stock that is
known to be destined for the fall trade If
this market is lot of Polled Anguses
and they have fair prospect of selling
readily.
With the present prospects of q scarce
corn crop, the chances for southwest
Texas cottonseed meal and prickly pear
fed beeves next winter are not SO bad.
The prickly pear will not be short, and
cottonseed will be cheaper, comparatively,
than corn.
Raw onions chopped fine and mixed
with food twice week is recommended
as better than dozen cures for chicken
cholera.
Givr your hens a variety of food; a
change will be found beneficial.
Do not feed raw cornmeal dough to
sick fowl. Lett be steamed or scalded.
1t is an evident truth that fowls for
market should be in prime condition and
neatly dressed.
The only sure way to clean out nest
should the contents become soiled, IS to
carry the box outside, burn the hay, and
then dip sponge in kerosene and apply
q lighted match to the box, first rubbing
it over with the sponge. The Oil will burn
for few moments over the box and then
cease. If there are any lice they will have
but a poor chance. If an egg is broken
in the nest the result is usually lice, unless
the nest is at once cleaned, and the best
mode is to begin anew with the box very
SiOuhS Gnu llCSll OuD ldy pun Ill.
Nesting boxes should be made and fas-
sened to the side of the walls of the cOops, |
and should be large enough to admit of
two compartments, one for the young of
the first nest and the other nest for the |
hen to lay her second set of eggs. The |
partition between them should be high |
enough to prevent the young from get
ting over into where the hen is setting.
This partition should have strip about
four or five inches wide nailed over the tor |
OF the partition, to answer as an alighting |
place for them to stand with comfort. Ii |
should extend out through the entrance
far enough to answer for an alightiug
step.
Nueces county has on her assessment |
rolls 2O,95S horses, worth 1926, 347; 1910, 49S |
cattle, $1,l6O,591; 94,540 sheep, S93,571;
1853 goats, S4,055, and only 10 hogs, |
S25.
Water for the work field can be kept |
cool for long while if put in an earthen-
ware vessel wrapped with several folds of |
cloth, which should be kept wet. The |
water evaporates from the cloth and cools |
the vessel and contents. Every time the
Jug Is used little water can be spilled |
upon the surrounding cloth. Upon the |
same principle the water vessels in warm !
countries are of porous, unglazed earthen- |
ware; the small portion of the water that |
oozes through them and evaporates from
he surface coOls the remainder. In such |
countries these water jars are placed in
The shade and in current of air, hint |
mat should be needed by those who use a
,loth-colored vessel.-Ex.